Figurative Semiotics and the Semiotics of the Plastic Arts

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Algirdas Julien Greimas ◽  
Frank Collins ◽  
Paul Perron
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (15) ◽  
pp. 235-245
Author(s):  
Soner ÖZDEMİR

Light, which is the main source in which plastic arts produce meaning by processing it, indirectly takes place in all works of art with its different colors and tones throughout the history of art. With the use of new materials and techniques in art with the modern period, it is seen that the light itself, that is, the light source, is also included in art works as a medium. This situation allowed the artists to create brand new perceptions and effects. With the second half of the 20th century, the use of artificial light source in sculpture as an element belonging to the sculpture is encountered. Some of the artists selected as examples in this study were chosen in terms of being the first example in terms of the material they used, the way they used the light source and the diversity of the content they produced with these materials. Light, which is one of the primary conditions for perception in sculpture; In this study, the material forming the sculpture, such as transparency and reflection, is not based on its interaction with its structure, but as an element that forms a part or whole of the sculpture. It is aimed to show the effect of using artificial light source in sculpture on expression and perception through selected examples.


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 423-433
Author(s):  
Dror Harari

While Beckett's minimalism seems to draw his theatre further into its centre of gravity, it also pushes it in a counter move to its medial boundaries. This article examines Beckett's most compact piece, (1969), in the context of the major changes in the art world of the 1960s – particularly, the emergence of “new realist” sensibility in France – and suggests its consideration as a manifestation of “new theatre,” which blurs the line between theatre and the plastic arts.


Prosemas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
José Andújar Almansa

Resumen: A lo largo de este artículo, dividido en dos partes, se hace una valoración global de la poesía de Valente, atendiendo al especial vínculo que dentro de su obra mantuvieron la palabra-creativa y la palabra-pensamiento. En el primer apartado, «Hasta dónde llega una palabra», se muestran las reflexiones del autor acerca de «el lugar del canto», ese espacio que ya desde sus libros iniciales sintió la necesidad de levantar sobre la morada arruinada del lenguaje, en un «tiempo de miseria» y retóricas usurpadoras del verdadero decir poético. De manera paralela, se produce en Valente la conquista de una tradición literaria propia, fruto del acercamiento a las principales corrientes de la literatura, las artes plásticas, la música, la filosofía y la reflexión estética contemporánea. Los nombres de Juan Ramón, Cernuda, Celan, Jabès, María Zambrano, Webern o Tàpies representan algunos de los principales hitos dentro de ese itinerario, que tiene su reflejo más temprano en las páginas de Las palabras de la tribu y su Diario anónimo. La segunda parte, «La palabra sumergida», transita a lo largo de todos sus libros, prescindiendo de la cronología o las llamadas «etapas» de Valente, tan proclives a crear una ortodoxia en torno al autor. Con la expresión «palabra sumergida» se hace mención a distintos registros de su poética: la necesidad de mantenerse al margen de la superficie que llamamos actualidad, su acercamiento a los procedimientos creativos de la mística, su visión de lo inefable como un sustrato que forma parte de los depósitos del lenguaje o sus relaciones entre la atonalidad, el fragmentarismo y una estética del silencio. El propósito es demostrar que la palabra sumergida de Valente es una palabra afirmadora, que nunca enmudece ni cae en un nihilismo estéril. Poeta de la radical inmanencia y de la memoria material del mundo, es posible discernir a lo largo de su obra una «metafísica del arte», en los términos en que la concibieron Nietzsche o Heidegger. Palabras clave: José Ángel Valente; poesía española contemporánea, Juan Ramón Jiménez; Luis Cernuda; Valente traductor; Paul Celan; poéticas del fragmento; estética del silencio. Abstract: Through out this essay, divided into two parts, a global assessment of Valente’s poetry is made, taking into account the special link that the creative-word and the thought-word maintained in his work. In the first section, «How far does a word go», the author's reflections on «El lugar del canto» are shown, that space which he felt the need to build, on the ruined home of language from his very first books, in a «Time of Misery» and usurping rhetoric of true poetic saying. In parallel, there is the conquest of a literary tradition in Valente, the result of the approach to the main trends of literature, plastic arts, music, philosophy and contemporary aesthetic reflection. The names of Juan Ramón, Cernuda, Celan, Jabès, María Zambrano, Webern or Tàpies represent some of the main milestones within that itinerary, which has its earliest reflection in the pages of Las palabras de la tribu and Diario anónimo. The second part, «The word submerged», travels through out all his books, regardless of the chronology or the so-called «stages» of Valente, so likely to create an orthodoxy around the author. With the expression «Submerged Word» different records of his poetics are referred to: the need to stay away from the surface that we call current existence, his approach to the creative processes of mysticism, his vision of the ineffable as a substratum that is part of the deposits of language, or the relationships between atonality and fragmentation with an aesthetic of silence. The purpose is to demonstrate that Valente’s submerged word is an asserting word, which never keeps silent or leads to vain nihilism. Poet of the radical immanence and the material memory of the world, it is posible to discern through out his work a kind of «metaphysics of art», in the terms conceived by Nietzsche or Heidegger. Key words: José Ángel Valente; Spanish Contemporary poetry; Juan Ramón Jiménez; Luis Cernuda; traduction by Valente; Paul Celan; the fragmentary poetics; aesthetic of silence.


Author(s):  
Tiffany Renee Floyd

Born in Kirkuk, Iraq, Atta Sabri was among the pioneer generation of Iraqi modern artists with careers peaking in the mid-20th century. He was an active exhibitor and participant in several burgeoning art groups. After being educated and employed as a teacher in Baghdad, Sabri joined many of his peers in studying art abroad, first in Rome at the Accademia di Belle Arti and then, after World War II, in London at Goldsmith College and the Slade School. During the years of the war, Sabri held a job at the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad. After completing his studies, the artists again took up teaching this time at the Baghdadi Institute of Fine Art. Over the course of his career, Sabri became a founding member of the Society of the Friends of Art and a member of the Society of Iraqi Plastic Arts. His exhibition record includes the seminal Industrial and Agricultural Fair in 1931 and the 1950 First Iraqi Art Show in London. Sabri also exhibited extensively at the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad and in 1979 the museum held a retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre.


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